Thinking about reasons : themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Dancy / edited by David Bakhurst, Brad Hooker, and Margaret Olivia Little.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bakhurst, David.

Hooker, Brad.

Little, Margaret Olivia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dancy, Jonathan.

Ethics.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Thinking about Reasons' collects fourteen new essays on ethics and the philosophy of action, inspired by the work of Jonathan Dancy - one of his generation's most influential moral philosophers. Many of the most prominent living thinkers in the area are contributors to this collection, which also contains an afterword by Dancy himself.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Acting in the Light of a Fact""; ""2 Can Action Explanations Ever Be Non-Factive?""; ""3 The Ideal of Orthonomous Action, or the How and Why of Buck-Passing""; ""4 Dancy on Buck-Passing""; ""5 Are Egoism and Consequentialism Self-Refuting?""; ""6 In Defence of Non-Deontic Reasons""; ""7 The Deontic Structure of Morality""; ""8 Morality and Principle""; ""9 Moral Particularism: Ethical Not Metaphysical?""; ""10 A Quietist Particularism""; ""11 Contours of the Practical Landscape""; ""12 Why Holists Should Love Organic Unities""

""13 Practical Reasoning and Inference""""14 Why There Really Are No Irreducibly Normative Properties""; ""Afterword""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 1, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-166913-X

OCLC:

866592651